The world is at a tipping point. We are at a moment in history where we can and will go one of two ways: towards climate disaster or a safer planet for all.
Which path we take is determined at meetings like the one in Bonn, Germany, where I have been for the last week — sweltering in an unusually hot European heatwave. Nearly 200 countries attended at this round of UN climate talks, aimed at implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement, which seeks to keep the average global temperature increase below 2C.
All these countries agreed in 2015 to that deal, and yet here — nearly five years on — there are a few who wish to quietly use procedural measures to rip it up away from the public gaze.